Jamal Cyrus
2024 Stepping Stone Grantee
Jamal Cyrus received his BFA from the University of Houston in 2004 and his MFA from the University of Pennsylvania in 2008. He has won several prestigious awards, including most recently a Guggenheim Fellowship (2023). Cyrus was awarded the Driskell Prize, (High Museum of Art, Atlanta, GA) in 2020. The artist's mid-career survey, The End of My Beginning, opened at the Blaffer Museum of Art in 2021 before continuing on to the Institute of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles and the Mississippi Museum of Art. Cyrus was also a member of the artist collective Otabenga Jones and Associates, active from 2002 to 2017.
Amulet for a Long Summer March
, 2024Bleached denim, denim, zippers, cotton, thread, sea shells, glue72 × 119 inchesAmulet for a Long Summer March, 2024. Bleached denim, denim, zippers, cotton, thread, sea shells, glue. 72 × 119 inches.
